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Every year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) collaborates with experts across Canada to publish the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). The AFB is an exercise in what’s possible—a comprehensive guide to how a federal budget can achieve a vision where everyone in Canada can access the best public services, can get the income support they need to move out of poverty, and can tackle the greatest challenges of our time—such as income inequality, climate change, the cost of living, racism and truth and reconciliation. We also show how the federal government could pay for this transformative change through a suite of progressive taxes.

This year’s AFB is produced in anticipation of a federal election in 2025. As such, it’s written with political party platforms in mind—we hope this serves as inspiration and guidance to all political parties as we move into election mode.

Read the full AFB

Click the links below to reach each of the individual chapters of the 2024 Alternative Federal Budget:

Introduction

Summary

Affordable housing & homelessness

Agriculture

Arts and culture

Child care

Decent work

Employment insurance

Environment and climate change

First Nations

Food security

Gender equality

Health care

Health equity

Immigration

Incarceration

Income security and poverty

Infrastructure, cities, and public transit

International cooperation

International trade

Just transitions and industrial strategy

Macroeconomic and fiscal framework

Postsecondary education

Public services

Racial equality

Regulation

Seniors’ care

Taxation

Veterans